Oscar Taveras

The celebration has become a fall ritual for the St. Louis Cardinals. The champagne showers. The rowdy sing-alongs. The giddy clubhouse joy.

Yet it doesn't get old. Not for this group. Not after an emotionally draining season in which they somehow powered themselves to a third straight NL Central title, the clincher coming in an 11-1 dispatching of Pittsburgh in the second game of a doubleheader on Wednesday night that served as an exclamation point on a year unlike any other.

"Tell me another team that is going to lose their ace and their three-hole hitter and is going to win 100 games?" third baseman Matt Carpenter said, his eyes dripping with celebratory...

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